The Role of Government
Government involvement in the economy expanded greatly during the Great Depression through programs like this jobs program for young men.
What is the CCC or WPA
This type of business combination, often used in the Gilded Age, allowed a single company to eliminate competition and control an entire industry.
What is a Monopoly? (horizontal or vertical integration)
What is the Buffalo?
The Economic Boom of the 1920's eventually collasped after this 1929 event.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This is what nearly happened to the American buffalo due to railroad expansion, overhunting, and settlement of the Great Plains.
What is extinction?
Compared to earlier presidents during the Gilded Age, Franklin D. Roosevelt dramatically expanded federal responsibility for helping Americans during economic crisis through this series of legislation.
What is the New Deal? (CCC, FDIC, AAA, WPA, SEC, Social Security)
As factories grew during the Gilded Age, workers increasingly joined these organizations to demand better conditions and pay
What are Labor Unions?
After Reconstruction ended, African Americans in the South faced increasing segregation through these laws.
What are Jim Crow Laws
Farming problems that began before the Great Depression became worse during the 1930s because of this environmental disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
During industrialization, factories, railroads, and mining expanded rapidly, which led to dirty air, contaminated water, and damaged land as natural resources were used up and waste increased.
What is pollution/environmental damage?
The Gilded Age was characterized by this type of economic policy that favors limited to no government involvement in the economy or business regulation.
What is Laissez-Faire (Hands Off)
During the 1920s, more Americans could buy consumer goods because of this system, but it also increased personal debt.
What is buying on credit/installment plans/buy now pay later?
As industrial jobs increased in northern cities during WWI, these two groups of people filled vacancies in the workplace.
Who are Women and African Americans?
As panic spread during the Depression, many Americans rushed to withdraw money during these events.
What are bank runs?
This process increased as people moved from farms to cities because factories and railroads created more urban jobs.
As problems caused by industrialization were exposed by Muckraker material like The Jungle, The government passed this law to regulate food production.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act? (Set a sanitation and handling code)
the elite of the Gilded Age built mansions on 5th Avenue, this form of cramped, often unsanitary housing became the reality for the working poor.
What are Tenements?
As industrialization expanded, this group often faced long hours, dangerous working conditions, and low pay.
Who are industrial workers? (will accept immigrants)
During the 1920s, many Americans bought stocks using borrowed money through this risky practice.
What is buying on margin?
During industrialization, these new inventions changed daily life in American homes and society by making work easier, improving communication, and expanding entertainment.
What are technological advancements (washing machines, refrigerators, radios, telegraphs, etc.)
As an entitlement program established in 1935, it was the primary expansion of government providing direct assistance to citizen including, old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and aid for disabled individuals.
What is Social Security?
During the Gilded Age, 1% of families controlled 51% of property, a gap largely created by these industrialists, such as Rockerfeller and Carnegie who paid workers low wages while accumulating fortunes, were referred to as this name.
What is Robber Barons?
After building the majority of the Central Pacific Railroad, these laborers were blamed for wage decreases and subsequently targeted by Congress in an 1882 act.
Consumer demand for goods was very high after WWI and Newly invented machines allowed U.S. factories to produce more goods in less time leading to this cause of the great depression.
What is overproduction?
This foreign policy grew as industrialization in the United States led to mass production, railroad expansion, and increased economic power. With more goods being produced than could be sold at home, the U.S. began seeking new markets and resources overseas.
What is Imperialism?